Liberty City Choppers

A Lost member named Jim will eventually become available for you to visit. This guy is located off of Plumbers Skyway, between that expressway and Aspdin Drive on the east. When you arrive, Johnny and Jim will strike up a rather friendly conversation. The two haven't worked together for a while, and although Johnny is reluctant (as usual) to help Jim steal bikes from their rival gang, he decides to help nonetheless. And just like that, the duo are on their bikes, with Jim leading the way and Johnny in pursuit.

From where you met Jim, the trip you and your new friend will take it a brief one. Your destination is in an alleyway off of Asahara Road, where Asahara runs into Babbage Drive. Although Jim will lead the way, he has the strange tendency of going extremely slow -- probably because he wants to talk to you while he rides. So, feel free to ride ahead and follow the GPS on your HUD to get to your destination on your own. Either way works fine.

When you arrive at the aforementioned alleyway, you'll find something very strange (for The Lost and Damned, anyway)... a truck. This is likely the first time in the DLC that you've ridden in something other than atop a chopper. But we're stealing a load of bikes, and this is how we're going to do it. Your destination is basically due south from the alleyway. The GPS will bring you along Babbage Drive in a southerly direction, until you arrive on Niblick Street (which seamlessly starts where Babbage Drive ends.) Nearby, you'll be able to park your truck and get down to business.

The first two bikes of the five you have to steal are relatively easy to acquire, since you won't come under fire from nearby foes ahead and to your left. So load both of those bikes onto the truck, and then follow your friend's advice and give one of your boys a call for backup (the names of your friends that you can call will flash on-screen). When your much-needed back-up arrives, you can then head forward along the building and look ahead and to your left, where a contingent of foes and the remaining three choppers are located.

You can get into a firefight here, which is a reasonable and obvious solution to your problem. However, if you sit and think about what it is you can do here, you'll see a much, much easier solution to your problems. Instead of outwardly risking life and limb by getting into a firefight at inherently awkward angles with few pieces of cover to use, simply dash to one of the cars in the lot. Once hotwired, you'll be able to drive around the parking lot and run over all of your enemies, killing them rather effortlessly. Remember -- if any enemy is hiding behind a car, you can collide with their cover and ram it into them; this will still lead to their rather untimely death. When the enemy threat is nullified, you can then run around grabbing dropped ammunition. But more importantly, you'll want to take the remaining three choppers and park them in the back of the truck.

Once the truck is loaded with five stolen choppers, it's time to head back north along Babbage Drive to the alleyway where we originally picked up the truck. Of course, your trip northward won't be quite as easy as it was heading southward, because well-armed motorcycle-riding thugs will chase you all the way northward. Thankfully, you're in a pretty tough vehicle, and what it lacks in speed it makes up for in durability. As long as the bikers aren't in front of you or next to you, you won't even remotely be in danger of being struck by their bullets heading forward. Nonetheless, the pursuers shouldn't be underestimated as you head northward.

When the truck is securely parked in the alleyway, the mission isn't quite over. While you won't get the chance to control Johnny again during this mission, you can rest assured that a pair of crooked cops will ruin your day. After pushing you and your friend around a bit, and after pushing over one of the stolen choppers, the cops make it clear that they want a payoff, and they want it soon. If they don't get it, they'll report what they just witnessed -- the theft of five bikes and the deaths of about a half-dozen men. And on that happy note, the mission concludes.